French IT conglomerate Capgemini, which has around 1,00,000 employees in India and approximately 2,00,000 globally, is actually seeing a silver lining amidst the ongoing ‘Automation Apocalypse’ being witnessed everywhere.

In a positive stand, the company has announced that they will hire 20,000 from India this year, and have declared that 45,000 existing employees have already been trained till May.

Unlike other IT and ITeS companies from India, which have been firing employees left and right, Capgemini is focussing on re-skilling, and smart hiring, so that the young generation is capable of handling the modern-day businesses.

And, in a positive spin, the management is taking automation as a welcome change, rather than cribbing about it.

In an interview, Christopher Stancombe, head, industrialisation and automation, Capgemini said, “There is a lot of training. We are investing a lot of money in the development of training programmes because automation and the integration of automation are leading to a lot of opportunity for our workforce.”

And the effects are visible too.

Last year, it was found that majority of young Indians want to work with companies like Capgemini and Amazon, because of their refined, and reformed human resource policies.

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